The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which has chronicled the news of the city since logs slid down its steep streets to the harbor and miners caroused in its bars before heading north to Alaska's gold fields, will print its final edition Tuesday and shift entirely to the Web.

NASA's plans to ship people to the moon and some day Mars are very much up in the air these days, with debate over Barack Obama's plans for the space agency a hot water cooler topic in the aerospace industry. Budget battles aside, one new study asks, how should these future astronauts steer their way around our solar system?

Christopher Paolini looks a little like Harry Potter. And like the boy wizard, Paolini's bespectacled face and unassuming demeanor mask a magical life. But while Potter's talents are the fictional imaginings of J.K. Rowling, Paolini's talents are grounded in the real world.